Today Kiki was proudly showing off her Daddy’s press match copy of the Schlock Mercenary book to a friend. She was pointing to characters on the cover and telling who they were. She identified Tagon and then informed her friend that he was dead. Apparently she’d missed the whole storyline with time travel and the undoing of Tagon’s death. In fact none of the kids have really read Schlock Mercenary. This is mostly because we don’t allow them to randomly surf the internet. Also they’re mostly too young to get the jokes. This will change and is in fact already changing. Kiki took the press match for bedtime reading. She is now determined to catch up on the whole story. I suspect that each of the kids will do the same as they reach the appropriate reading level.
Even though they don’t read the strip, all of the kids are tremendously proud of the fact that Howard writes it. Kiki asks how many books we’ve sold on a daily basis. Today they were fighting over who got to help stamp “media mail” on the bubble pack mailers I have awaiting books. Schlock is definitely a family endeavor.
I’ll be getting two copies of the book. One will be for the boys to read. I know there will be tons they won’t really understand, but the same thing is true for Calvin and Hobbes and they have pretty well worn out those books.
I’ll be getting two copies of the book. One will be for the boys to read. I know there will be tons they won’t really understand, but the same thing is true for Calvin and Hobbes and they have pretty well worn out those books.